Stephen Chop
Experienced clinician for life transitions
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C, LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephen
Stephen Chop is a licensed clinician with thirty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. He blends practical strategies with steady support so someone feeling overwhelmed can take small steps forward.
Stephen holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Certificate holder, LCSW-C, with license number MD LCSW-C 08624, and also maintains a Virginia LCSW license, VA LCSW 0904014807. In sessions he uses clear, down-to-earth language.
Background and approach
He listens first, then outlines simple tools for coping with mood shifts, anger, grief, or addictive patterns. He offers ways to address career stress, self-esteem issues, and major life changes through focused conversation and homework you can try between sessions.
Stephen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. He also uses Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused methods to create space for processing emotions and repairing strained connections. These approaches are mixed based on what each person needs.
His practice supports a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. He also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, fatherhood matters, caregiver stress, and first responder challenges. Sessions are offered in English and take place remotely through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions according to availability. The service uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that fit online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and choosing small actions that move a person toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior, then teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful habits and ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the persons perspective by offering empathetic listening and support so the person feels understood and can explore choices.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Over time they adjust techniques based on what helps most, so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for more flexible scheduling and let a person connect from home or work. Many people find remote formats reduce travel time and make it simpler to practice new skills between meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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